Script Steps Reference

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ILEMAKER PRO SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 303
Subsummary parts
Use summary parts to view and displa
y information from one or more records. You place a
summary field in a summary part to display a summary of information for each group of records
sorted on the break field. You can add one or more subsummaries above (leading) or below
(trailing) the body.
Subsummary value
Aggregate values for different categories of data within a field. F
or example, a subsummary
value can be the total of employees for each department.
Summary field
A field that contains the result of a summary c
alculation of values across a group of records.
Supplemental field
A FileMaker calculation field
or summary field that you can append to ODBC tables in order to
do calculations on the external data while working in FileMaker. The calculations are not stored
and you are not changing the schema of the ODBC table.
System formats
Settings that determine how your op
erating system displays and sorts dates, times, numbers,
and currency.
If the system formats are different
on your computer from those on the computer on which the
file was created, the first time you open the file, FileMaker Pro asks if you want to use the
sys
tem’s settings or the file’s settings. When you format fields, you can use the Inspector to
have data displayed according to the current system formats.
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Tab control
A layout object made up of one or more t
ab panels that allows you to organize fields and other
objects within each tab panel's borders.
Tab control and tab panels in Browse mode
Tab order
The order in which you move from f
ield to field in a record. In Layout mode, you can define a
custom tab order and include buttons, panel controls, and web viewers in the tab order.
Tab panel
A component of a tab control. The tab panel is the area displaye
d when a tab in a tab control is
selected. You can place objects such as lines, fields, buttons, portals, imported graphics, blocks
of text, tab controls, slide controls, and web viewers on tab panels.